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The article reports that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia ordered a stay of execution for terminally ill prisoner Daniel L. Siebert. Siebert was scheduled to die by lethal injection. An appeal was filed by lawyers representing Siebert following refusal of Judge Mark E. Fuller of Federal District Court in Alabama to stop execution of Siebert.

The article reports that the Georgia Supreme Court ordered a stay of execution for Curtis Osborne, a condemned prisoner. While passing the stay order, the court cited the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to review constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. Earlier, the court also stayed execution of criminal Jack E. Alderman by lethal injection.

The article reports that convict Troy A. Davis was granted a stay on his execution by the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles on July 16, 2007. Davis was convicted of killing police officer Mark A. MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia in 1989. The stay of the execution of Davis by lethal injection give members of the board up to 90 days to evaluate and analyze evidence parented by the lawyers for Davis in a clemency hearing.